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Wah-Keat Lee, Lijuan Ruan, and Alistair Rogers—all researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory—explored the comple

On Saturday, December 2, in a room at the Stanford Inn in Mendocino, a packed crowd in reserved their seats and listened to two speakers knowledgeable about climate change and the security of the redwoods on the California coast.

Berkeley Lab scientists Dung-Hai Lee and Jizhong Zhou were recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Starting in the 1970s, scientists working for the oil giant made remarkably accurate projections of just how much burning fossil fuels would warm the planet.

Corn Belt Nitrous Oxide Emissions Spike when Soils Freeze and Thaw

Can California reliably power millions of additional electric vehicles, given the state's recent history of summer blackouts.

An energy scientist and a climate scientist discuss how utilities can plan for a resilient electrical grid in the face of an uncertain climate future

I doubt you'll blame me for blurting out, "How doomed are we?" the moment I sat down with renowned climate modeling expert William Collins at TC Sessions: Climate. 

It’s appropriate that the first panel of the first TechCrunch Sessions: Climate event begins with climate science. Establishing a shared understanding of the global crisis and what the future holds if we fail to act decisively — and with all due haste — is essential. It sets the stage for a discussion about pragmatic and […]

Berkeley physicists and soil scientists recently joined efforts to develop a new method for detecting carbon in dirt — without even having to touch soil.